Interview Tips: Share a conflict resolution. A BAD answer / example.

A man, interviewing for a Controller position, answers the common interview question: Tell me about a recent conflict you’ve encountered and how you’ve handled it. This is an example of a BAD way to answer this question.
Describe the conflict objectively, and be careful about placing blame and accepting none. Give specific examples of [...]

Our Workplace: Employment crucial to Liberia’s recovery

In this edition of Our Workplace, ILO Communications Director Zohreh Tabatabai meets with Samuel Woods, human rights lawyer and Minister of Labour in Liberia. When fourteen years of conflict came to an end in 2003, 85 per cent of the country’s working people were unemployed. A self-described “incurable optimist”, Mr. Woods is pushing ahead with [...]

Interview Tips: Share a conflict resolution. An UGLY answer / example.

A man, interviewing for a Controller position, answers the common interview question: Tell me about a recent conflict you’ve encountered and how you’ve handled it. This is an example of an UGLY way to answer this question.
Describe the conflict objectively, and be careful about placing blame and accepting none. Give specific examples of [...]